Akos Holéczy

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Akos Holéczy (born July 2, 1943 in Budapest ; † January 19, 2016 ) was a Swiss musician of Hungarian descent.

Life

He gained his first musical experience in Budapest in the big band of his father Ákos Holéczy. The mother, Stefi Ákos, was a classically qualified jazz singer. Jazz music was hardly tolerated by the communist Hungarian government at the time. As a result, on his first concert tour to the West, Holéczy took the opportunity to ask for political asylum in Switzerland and was then given it. He continuously performed with his own quartet / quintet in clubs and discos until he received the saxophone teaching diploma in 1977 and the concert maturity diploma with the distinction summa cum laude at the music academy of the city of Basel in 1979 in the concert class with Iwan Roth attained.

He became a citizen of Basel and worked for many years as a saxophone teacher at JMS Leimental, JMS Arlesheim and JMS Binningen / Bottmingen (1975–2001). Akos continued to play regularly as a baritone saxophonist in the DRS Big Band Zurich under Hans Moeckel and Peter Jacques . As an "accredited newcomer" among many internationally known and well-known conductors, concerts with the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra . Participation in the Far East tour under conductor Hiroshi Wakasugi in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. In Italy - under conductor Christoph Eschenbach - u. a. in the Arena di Verona as a soloist in the Boléro by Maurice Ravel . With the Hessischer Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester as a soloist in the Eurovision - recording of Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, as well as participation in concerts and recordings in the broadcasting hall a. a. under conductor Péter Eötvös . From 1975 to 1983 head of the big band of the Stadtmusik Basel.

Akos has led varied projects and concerts with gospel, church choirs, various rock, pop, fusion, world music, blues, funk and soul bands. He played alongside Dennis Armitage , Charles Tolliver , Ann Malcolm , Toots Thielemans , Remo Rau , Glenn Ferris , Kurt Weil , Roman Dylag , Thomas Schauffert, Jimmy & The Rackets, Béla Szakcsi Lakatos , Robert Szakcsi Lakatos, 1980 played with Thomas Moeckel on his CD "Centrifuge". Akos worked in various theater productions in the Stadttheater Basel such as B. Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev , in Lulu (opera) by Alban Berg with the Sinfonieorchester Basel under conductor Friedrich Cerha with, but also in the performance of stage works such as B. Musical Cabaret at Zurich Opera House as lead saxophonist.

With Victor Burghardt 's saxophone collective “Europort” in the USA at the Swiss Institute in New York and the Swiss Embassy in Washington.

Discography

  • 2007: Destinations , Hungaroton
  • Saxophone collective Europort: Divertimento
  • Stage Four Band: That's Entertainment!

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Holéczy, Akos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musicians of Hungarian descent
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2016